ER

I definitely should not have "bragged" about having a perfect pregnancy thus far. For the last few weeks or so, I've had a slight cough. It finally subsided (sometimes, though, I still sound like I have smoker's cough!), but my right side had been hurting some. Nothing too awful, but nothing comfortable, either. After dinner last night I was hanging in the bedroom when suddenly I couldn't breathe, I couldn't sit, I couldn't stand. Nothing was comfortable. I texted my mom to see if this might be normal during pregnancy, and she advised me to call the dr. I hollered for David in the other room, and I heard the Xbox controller and remote and who knows whatever else hit the floor as he came running. I was shaking and in tears asking him to call the dr. Unfortunately, my dr wasn't on call, so we waited for a call back from Dr. Horn. After hearing David describe what was going on, he told us to get to the ER because it might be my gall bladder. I was panicking. I CAN'T miss school right now. I can't.

So we get there, do all the paperwork, they get me hooked up upstairs in Labor and Delivery, questions going, etc. Hayden was completely fine; we spent a good 4 hours listening to his heartbeat (which is such a precious sound; I never get tired of hearing that steady whoosh-whoosh-whoosh). That made me feel better, but we still had no news on my gall bladder. About 10:30 the nurses told us the ultrasound guy would be by in about an hour (there were 2 true emergencies downstairs). Thankfully, he came about 11:15. No gall bladder issues, and he even let us peek at Hayden! But my goofy son kept his back to us--nice shot of a strong looking spine, though! Dr. Horn had said he thought it was just muscle inflammation around my ribs, and he was right. Let me tell you, if you don't experience this pain, count yourself blessed. It's intense. Never felt anything like it.

David made me stay home today; I'm glad he did. I could barely sit or stand for most of the day and have slept nearly all of it. I'm going to work tomorrow, but it's slow going. I mean, SLOW. All I could think about was losing a day of my maternity in May and a day of tutoring pay today. Priorities, right? But I've got to stay healthy and keep Hayden safe. If anything, maybe my kids got a message. I've been telling them that my having to constantly get on to them and their noise level is not good for me or the baby. We'll see how they react tomorrow. I'm so blessed to have teachers that I can call at 10:00 from the ER who will cover my duty and give my classes something to do!